... meta-models time-variant reliability set-theory performance indices first-order reliability method Monte Carlo simulation Design of physical systems involves finding the values of the design variables that in turn, position the performance measures to best meet their upper or lower...

..., the proposed method calculates the component reliability, system reliability, or statistical moments and their sensitivities by applying Monte Carlo simulation to the accurate surrogate model. Since the surrogate model is used, the computational cost for the stochastic sensitivity analysis is affordable...

...Tong Zou; Zissimos P. Mourelatos; Sankaran Mahadevan; Jian Tu An accurate and efficient Monte Carlo simulation method is presented for limit-state-based reliability analysis at both component and system levels, using a response surface approximation of the failure indicator function. The cross...